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To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that 1, Oscar: C. GRAFF, citizen of State of certain new and use county of Cook and llhnois, have invented ful Improvements in following is a specification.

' The invention relates in general to fenders adapted to be used for all purposes for which fenders are used, but more particularly for motor vehicles.

Fenders for motor vehicles have heretofore consisted of a suitable rail or'guard, a supporting, rod for said rail, spring cushion ing means, and a guide for the supporting rod; such guide being connected to some point upon the vehicle, the point of attachment being generally to the and: of thevehicle frame by means of a bolt, or to the spring of the vehicle. Constructions of this character are faulty on account of the weak support for the guide, and for the further reason that the line of thrust upon the supporting rod is to one side of the main support for such supporting rod.

o overcome the foregoing objections, I have devised a fender adapted to be connected to a vehicle frame or other support, whereby the thrust comes directly upon the strong support, such as the vehicle frame.

The ob ect, therefore, of my invention is to and compact fender, neat in appearance, yet extremely durable.

A further object of my invention is to provide a fender whereby the shocks from colimparted. directly to the strongest point of attachment, with not only less injury to the parts of the fender itself, but also, with less liability of injury to the vehicle frame or other point of attachment.

To these ends the invention consists of a suitable rail, a supporting membertherefor, a guide; for said supporting member, cush; inning means, and an extended bearing surface on said guide adaptedto be rigidly at tached to a vehicle frame or other point of attachment, whereby the shocks from collisions are imparted directly to the point'of attachment.

In the accompanyim drawings, Figure l is a perspective view my improved fender, attached to a vehicle frame. Fig. 2. is a side elevational view of my improved fender. a partthereof being shown in section.

Specification of Iietters Patent; Application filed February 28, 1910. Serial No. 545,333.

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Patented Aug 23, 1910..

Referring now more specifically to the a drawing, the fender comprises ,a suitable the United States, residing at Ohicage, in. the

rail 4, adapted to extend the vehicle, and preferably supporte at two points. Suitable sleeves 4 are mounted upon the rail, to which the supporting members 5 are connected; the ends of the supporting members being suitably threaded, as shown at 6,. and adapted to enga e threaded apertures in the sleeves 4:. uides 7, the exterior surfaces of which may be of any suitable form, are provided with suitable apertures or bores 8, the outer ends of the bores being suitably threaded, as shown 'at 9, and the inner ends of the borcs'8 being provided with suitable recesses in which the ends of the supporting members 5 are adapted. to slide. Threaded nuts 11', having a threaded engagement withv the threaded ends 9 of the guides 7, are suitably apertured to receive the supporting members 5, whereby the supporting members have a sliding engagement therewith.

Annular shoulders 12 are rigidly secured to the supporting members 5, serving two purposes, viz; to limitthe outward move ment of the supporting members and also to compress the cushioning members 13 within .thebore 8' the cushioning members 13 being confine between the annular shoulsubstantiall across ders 12 and the shoulders 14 formed integral with the guides 7. The guides 7 are provided with extended bearin surfaces 15 which may be of any suita le form, but which are herein shown as having curved surfaces conforming to the curved upper surfaces of the frames 16 to which the springs 17 are attached by means of the bolts 18. The extended bearing surfaces 15 of the guides Tare connected to the vehicle frame by means of suitable bolts 19.

In the construction as herein described, two guides are rovided for en porting the rail 3, one gui e being attached the side frames 16 of the vehicle. 2 a lip 20 is show In Fig. n as formed integral with the golds and engaging the ends of the construct-ion of the frames of motor vehicles varies and consequently the precise construction of the hides and extended portions may be varieo to have surfaces to conform to each of.

to the surface'of the point of attachment to the vehicle; or other supporting member.

In operation, in the eventv that the rail com'esm contact with another device, the

rail is moved inwardly toward its support,

thereby compressing the cushioning meIn-' hers 13 and the shock of the collision is im-f parted to the guides which in turn impart the same directly to the strong point of attachment, viz; the vehicle frame.

In the preferred form of construction and particularly when the fender'i's'applied to a motor vehicle, two points of support for therail are desirable, but it is of course obvious that-the invention might be put to certain uses where only one point of-support the threaded ends of said ends, and tiprings within said guides and backing said supportingirods.

2. In a vehicle fender the combination of .a rail, two sup orting rods connected at their ends to sai rail, guides having recesses wherein said rods are slidingly supported, curved bearing portions formed integral with said guides and adapted to overlie the ends of the side frame and to be secured thereto, and springs within said recesses and backing said su porting rods.

3. In a vehic e fender the combination of a rail, two supporting rods connected at their ends to said Jrail, guides having integral bearing portions adapted to abut a ainst the ends of the frame of said vesaid' ides each havin one end open and its ot er end closed an forming-a slot in which the free ends of 'said supporting rods are adapted to slide, springs within said recesses, shoulders on said supporting rods and nuts having a threadedengagement with ides and in which-nuts said supporting r s are slidably mounted.

- OSCARC. GRAFF. Witnesses:

JAMES It.v Orrmnn, Gnnmns J. Scam.

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